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Bath-sheba’s mourning, like that of Abigail 1 Samuel 25:39, was
probably limited to the customary time of seven days....
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III. DAVID'S SIN, CHASTISEMENT AND RESTORATION
1. David's Great Sin
CHAPTER 11
_ 1. David's great sin (2 Samuel 11:1)_
2. David sends for Uriah (2 Samuel 11:6)
3. The murder of Uriah (2
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SAM 11. DAVID, BATH-SHEBA, AND URIAH (J).
2 SAMUEL 11:1. In the spring, at the beginning of the season suitable
for military operations, Joab and the army set out to besiege Rabbah
(Jeremiah 49:2 *);...
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MOURNED. made lamentations....
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Bath-sheba becomes David's wife
26. _she mourned for her husband_ Seven days was the usual period of
mourning. See Gen 50:10; 1 Samuel 31:13; Jdt 16:24; Sir 22:12. In
exceptional cases thirty days wer...
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_2 SAMUEL 11:26_. S_HE MOURNED FOR HER HUSBAND,_ &C.— This mourning
is generally supposed to have been the keeping of a fast for seven
days successively; eating nothing each day till the sun was set....
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_Bathsheba Becomes David's Wife._ 2 Samuel 11:22-27
22 So the messenger went, and came and showed David all that Joab had
sent him for.
23 And the messenger said unto David, Surely the men prevailed a...
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DAVID AND BATHSHEBA
This narrative is of the greatest value. It shows the faithfulness and
the high morality of the historian, who relates, without a single
attempt at palliation, this scandalous chap...
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DAVID, THE GREAT KING OF ISRAEL
2 SAMUEL
_HELEN POCOCK_
CHAPTER 11
DAVID AND BATHSHEBA
V1 The next spring came. Kings usually went to fight wars during
springtime. David sent Joab out with David...
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MOURNED FOR HER HUSBAND. — How long this mourning lasted we are not
told. The usual period was seven days (Genesis 1:10; 1 Samuel 31:13),
and although that of a widow may well have been somewhat longe...
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וַ תִּשְׁמַע֙ אֵ֣שֶׁת אֽוּרִיָּ֔ה
כִּי ־מֵ֖ת...
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CHAPTER XIV.
_ DAVID AND URIAH._
2 Samuel 11:1.
HOW ardently would most, if not all readers, of the life of David have
wished that it had ended before this chapter! Its golden era has
passed away, a...
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ADDING BLOOD-GUILTINESS TO ADULTERY
2 Samuel 11:14
Joab must have smiled grimly to himself when he received his master's
letter. “This king of ours can sing psalms with the best, but I have
to do his...
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In the whole of the Old Testament literature there is no chapter more
tragic or full of solemn and searching warning than this.
Carefully pondering it, we notice the downward steps logically
following...
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_For him. We may apply to her tears those words of Lucan:
-----Lachrymas non sponte cadentes_
Effudit, gemitusque expressit pectore læto.
"None affected more sorrow for the death of Germanicus, than...
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(26) And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead,
she mourned for her husband.
What are we to think of this woman! The Holy Ghost hath not remarked
anywhere on her conduct. Was sh...
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We have seen the sorrowful circumstances out of which arose the first
desire to have a king in Israel, and the remarkable fact that,
although it was a sin, God nevertheless did not put the people back...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 11, 12, AND 13.
The history of David and the wife of Uriah follows. David is no longer
acting by faith in God's service. When the time comes at which kings
go...
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AND WHEN THE WIFE OF URIAH HEARD THAT URIAH HER HUSBAND WAS DEAD,....
The news of which were soon sent her by David, though it is very
probable she knew nothing of the plot to take away his life; and,...
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And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she
mourned for her husband.
Ver. 26. _She mourned for her husband._] _Fictis lachrymis; _ there
is little doubt to be made but that...
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1 While Ioab besieged Rabbah, Dauid committeth adulterie with
Bath-sheba.
6 Vriah sent for by Dauid to couer the adulterie, would not goe home
neither sober nor drunken.
14 Hee carieth to Ioab the l...
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And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah, her husband, was dead,
she mourned for her husband, probably the usual seven days, Genesis
50:10; 1 Samuel 31:13....
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David's Murder of Uriah...
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The account with Ammon had by no means been settled, and in the Spring
David sent Joab and the armies of Israel to battle the Ammonites and
to besiege their capital city, of Rabbah. We are told specif...
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14-27 Adulteries often occasion murders, and one wickedness is sought
to be covered by another. The beginnings of sin are much to be
dreaded; for who knows where they will end? Can a real believer ev...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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2 Samuel 11:26 wife H802 Uriah H223 heard H8085 (H8799) Uriah H223
husband H376 dead H4191 (H8804) mourned...
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CONTENTS: David's great sin.
CHARACTERS: David, Uriah, Bathsheba, Joab.
CONCLUSION: A Christian with natural tendencies to sensuality may have
cravings even when the general bent of his mind is to li...
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2 Samuel 11:1. _When kings go forth to war._ After the latter rain,
early in May, when the campaign could open, and when the main of their
harvest was saved. _Rabbah_ was the capital of the Ammonites,...
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2 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 2 SAMUEL 11:26 The MOURNING period was probably
seven days (Genesis 50:10;...
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CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES
2 Samuel 11:1. “AFTER THE YEAR,” etc., rather, _at the return of
the year, i.e._, in the spring when kings were accustomed to begin
military operations. “HIS SERVANTS,”...
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EXPOSITION
2 SAMUEL 11:1
AFTER THE YEAR WAS EXPIRED; Hebrew and Revised Version, _at the return
of the year; _that is, as Josephus paraphrases it, "the next spring."
It seems quite certain that the w...
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Now in chapter eleven.
It came to pass, after these things that Joab, and the army in the
springtime when it was a good time to go out and fight, after the
winter rains were over, Joab with the forces...
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2 Samuel 14:2; 2 Samuel 3:31; Genesis 27:41...